[krbdev.mit.edu #1003] ftpd continues with 232 after 230-No directory

Tom Yu via RT rt-comment at krbdev.mit.edu
Tue Sep 10 15:35:36 EDT 2002


>>>>> "donn" == donn  <donn at u.washington.edu> writes:

>> Description:
donn> 	login() issues a line "230-No directory!..." when chdir to
donn> 	the user's home directory fails.  It leaves the continuation
donn> 	of that line up to the caller, and in the case of a GSS
donn> 	authenticated login, the code comes out "232".  Ftp clients,
donn> 	including MIT krb5, need the same code before the continuation
donn> 	is finished, so they're stuck.
>> How-To-Repeat:
donn> 	Rename your home directory, ftp in with Kerberos 5 credentials.
>> Fix:
donn> 	Pass code into login(), when it's different than what login()
donn> 	would normally use.  Following context diff is relative to
donn> 	krb5-1.2.2 + buffer overflow patches.

Thanks for the patch; this was fixed in krb5-1.2.3, I believe.

---Tom



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